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Re: Impact of lost storage connection

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Evening,

 

Great question.  I assume you are trying to create a justification for two HBA's or for a lower RPO.   I have had hundreds of storage failures even on redundant array's and rarely have I run into issues with machines 100% hosed due to this interruption.  This is due to the method storage arrays use store and forward.  That being said the problems I have seen are 100% on Windows.  The file system below Windows is not journaling based and thus suffers badly from these type of crashes.  I have seen a Windows machine have to return to a backup due to this type of crash it is rare.  I have never had a problem with Linux.  

 

What it really comes down to is design for failure and requirements.   Is your business willing to return to a backup from last night due to a driver or single card failure?   If the answer is that is too costly or unreasonable then more availablity options via CapEX should be made available.   It's not a issue of how much data is lost it's are you willing to loose data.

 

I hope it helps,

J


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